Re: [xsl] LUA Table to XML via XSL

[COUTHURES Alain <alain.couthures@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Alain a C)crit :
> Hello experts,
>
> I'd like to convert a LUA table to an equivalent in XML.
>
> Here is what a sample of a LUA table :
>
> o;?LuaTable = {
> ["Item1"] = 8.52,
> ["Item2"] = "String",
> ["Item3"] = {
> ["Child1"] = 4.5,
> ["Child2"] = {
> ["GranChild"] = "That's all folks!\n"
> },
> ["Child3"] = "With UTF-8: en franC'ais",
> }
> } -- this is a comment
>
>
> Ouput could be
>
> <LuaTable>
> <Item1>8.52</Item1>
> <Item2>String</Item2>
> <Item3>
> <Child1>4.5</Child1>
> <Child2>
> <GranChild>That's all folks!\n</GranChild>
> </Child2>
> <Child3>With UTF-8: en franC'ais</Child3>
> </Item3>
> </LuaTable> <!-- this is a comment -->
>
>
> I'll eventually manage to transform that but my question is:
>
> - Do you know if such a transformation already exists (and is 
> available), or some generic interpreter such as the equivalent of YACC ?
If you just add a document element, it's not very difficult to parse the 
text with XSLT recursive templates to build the corresponding XML. I 
have already done something like this with XSLT 1.0 for CSS and for 
XPath 1.0 expressions.

Alain COUTHURES
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